HP c7000 Blade System

Our company just bought a HP c7000 Blade System recently, no doubts I have fun configuring it this few weeks.

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Switches

ESX CLI:

• esxcfg-vswitch -a vSwitch1 -> This create a new vSwitch1
• esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic1 vSwitch1 -> This will link my second physical network interface (vmnic1) to vSwitch1
• esxfg-vswitch -U vmnic1 vSwitch1 -> This will unlink NIC to vSwitch
• esxcfg-vswitch -A "Service Console" vSwitch0 -> This will create a new port group named Service Console.
• esxfg-vswitch -A "VMtion" vSwitch1 -> This will create a new port group named VMotion and associate it to vSwicth1.
• esxcfg-vswif -a vswif0 -p "Service Console" -a 192.168.1.2 -n 255.255.255.0 -b 192.168.1.255 -> This will create new L3 interface which is linked to SC port group with an static IP. ESX server will generate new L2 mac address and assign this to the vswif2 interface.
• esxcfg-vmknic -a -i 10.10.0.5 -n 255.255.255.0 VMotion -> This will assign an IP and subnet mask to the VMotion port group.

Below is the steps to
-- Create a new vSwitch named vSwitch1
-- Associate a physical NIC, in this case vmnic1 to the vSwitch1
-- Create a new Port Group under vSwitch1
-- Create a new NIC under vSwitch1 and assign it an IP and subnet

Changing the DNS server settings

To change the DNS server settings, update the nameserver IPs and search domain the /etc/resolv.conf file.